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Speaker 1 (00:02):
American Trail. The American Trail blazed in blood, defended in blood,
(00:27):
Chapter one, Dispatched to New York, seventeen seventy six. There
is no longer room for hope. If we want to
be free, we must fight. I repeat how we must fight,
and appeal to arms, and the God of Hosts is
all the rest left to us. In seventeen eighty seven,
(00:55):
almost nine years later, a stagecoach hurtled along the rough
lanes that led from New.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
York, Virginia.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Inside the coach sat Tom Farrell, a newspaper reporter from
New York City. As he sat there, he planned how
he would write the story he would soon send back.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
To his newspaper.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
And dispatch to the New York Packet. Date line March eighteenth,
seventeen eighty seven. Your humble servant, being considered by his
batters fit to report the events to occur in Philadelphia
in May of this year, and.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Having at his disposal a few weeks to spare.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Is now taking an opportunity to travel by stagecoach to Virginia,
there to interview one Patrick Henry, an aggressive opponent of
the New American Constitution. Sir, do I have the honor
of addressing mister Patrick Henry.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
You do.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I'm Tom Farrell, Sir, a journalist from New York, New York. Eh, well,
I can't blame you for wanting to come to Virginia.
Sit down, thank you, sir, and.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I'm not an overly cautious man, so you'd best mind
what you asked me and speak up while I bore
a glass of sadder. Sir, is it true that you
oppose the signing of the Constitution?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
It is? Would you care to say? Why not? At all?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
The thirteen American colonies did not wage a bloody war
to win their independence from a foreign king in order
to calmly surrender that independence to a central government. It's
this idea of one central government ruling all thirteen states.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
That I opposed.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
But sir, Virginia would be represented in the central government.
We want independence, not representation. And I'll opposed this constitution
with as much vigor as I opposed the Royal Crown.
The Constitution had not yet been approved or signed. It
was still just a piece of paper, and Patrick Henry,
(02:49):
in opposing it, was asserting his right as a free
man to express his own personal opinion of the most important.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Issue of his day.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
On the way to Philadelphia, newspaper man Tom Carroll became
friendly with one of the delegates who was also traveling
to the convention, where the constitution would be debated and
signed sign that is, if a sufficient number of delegates
approved it.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Newspaper man name, yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Well, what do you think about this constitution?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Well? I don't really know.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I know, of course you don't, nor does anybody else
in the right senses. Well, it's pretty much the first
time in history that people have been able to assemble
and decide for themselves what kind of government they want
to live under.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
You can't deny that.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Why do we need any government thing?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Don't you think we do?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I'm from western Pennsylvania. Why should we pay taxes to
anyone outside Pennsylvania? Mark my words. There's going to be
a stack of trouble in Philadelphia. There'll be blood spilled.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
There's something spilled. Now.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Listen, Men who but a few short years ago, had
fought shoulder to shoulder for independence were now shoot at
each other across disputed state lines. Tom Parrell knew that
America could not survive unless all the states were united,
under one central government. A few days later, Tom Parrell
(04:15):
sat in one of the crowded taverns.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Of Philadelphia with the delegate.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Who had been his stagecoach companion. Look around, mister Ferrell,
did you smell trouble?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I was looking at.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Faces grim, grim and serious. Not a smiling face.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Here.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Keep your eyes on yonder the table. See the fellow
with one hand touching the hilt of his sword. I'd
appreciate it if the gentleman seated opposite me would repeat
his previous statements with extreme pleasures. I repeat my statement
and my intention, if need be, to defend you with
my soul. It is my contention that the Southern States
have no business joining a union, and that they should
(04:53):
be separate and apart from your northern states.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Defend yourself.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
A duel.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Tom Parrell, watching the two men, sat there horribly fascinated.
Two men splashing at each other with cold steel, fighting
to the death over a piece of paper that the
founding Father's hope would bind together four million people. It
was night, and Tom Parrell walked alone. He walked until
(05:22):
he found himself in the ghostly silence of the Philadelphia waterfront.
He wanted to think and to be alone, good evening, sir,
h oh, grievely, he will be the pleasure seen a
living soul down.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Here, pleasure graveyard.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Hie, lad, Instead, all right, look for yourself. American ships
a good dozen of laying their idle empire cargo and
their timbers are rating. But why why aren't they loading
cargo and sailing? You should know that, lad, Foreign countries
will handle him to do with this. In their age
were not a propa nation. They didn't recognize this. Now
(06:04):
what is General Washington going to do about that? Self?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I don't know. I wish I did.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
What about those other fellows Medicine, Monroe, Hamilton, all the wisdom?
What are they going to do about American ships?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Lay?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Later?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
What were they going to do? These men who had
framed the new Constitution? In early May Carroll was granted
an interview. Were a very old but a very great
man who had seen more of the world than any
other living American statesman of his time.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
So you write for a newspaper, any boy, Yes, sir,
the New York Packet. Will I do a little writing myself?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Here?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Let me pour you from tea, Thank you, sir, and
make yourself comfortable, Tom.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Sir, I was just reflecting when I married and have children,
it'll be something for me to talk about that I
sat drinking tea with the great Benjamin Franklin.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Oh, you better keep it to yourself.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Thelling me an old fool saying I'm in my second childhood.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
They say I'm too old and know what I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Confound me, Tom, I'm not a day.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Over eighty, pardon said, Well, let's say eighty one. You
look just fine, mister Franklin.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I do, don't.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I Now look at this new coat of mine, tailored
in Paris, first time I've wanted since I came back
from Europe.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Elegance are extremely elegant. Well, now you have some questions,
I suppose fire away, sir. Are you satisfied with the
Constitution in its present form? After all, it isn't the
way you originally drafted it.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
No, No, it isn't.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I must confess there are several parts of us that
I don't approve, but the document of that sort cannot
please everybody. When you assemble a number of men to
have the advantage of their combined wisdom, you inevitably assemble
with those men or their prejudices, their mistaken opinions, their
(07:57):
local interests, and sometime self reviewers.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
That's very truthful.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
But you know, Tom, it astonishes me to find this Constitution,
with all its margins for error, so near to perfection.
I believe we can build a fine nation if we
follow this charter, and we must.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
The rest of the world is watching us.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Still not everybody seems to want it.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
No, it has its enemies. But the will of the
majority of people must be served. The majority, not the minority,
must rule this land of ours.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
But the will of the majority of the people did
not concern the minorities who fought tooth and nail against
the American Constitution, just as today when wicked groups in
America would wreck our way of life. So in those days,
there were those who were prepared to use any methods
they could find to prevent the Constitution becoming wrong. And
(09:01):
Tom Farrell, sitting in a tavern a few days later,
was scared. Scared because all about him were men who
plot at the downfall of the United States before they
were united. And with him was one of these very men,
the delicate he had met on the state coach. I've
something to tell you mister Farrell. Oh well, look who's
(09:23):
here and just about to leave, Alexander Hamilton mixing with
the common people. Stop him and ask him what he
thinks about the Constitution. Excuse me, excuse me, mister Hamilton.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Can I be of help to you a question? Sir?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
If you don't mind, I'm Farrell of the New York Packet.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Ay, Yes, what can I do for you? Mister Farrell?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Tell me, sir, do you think you'll get enough votes
to make the Constitution law? I don't know, but I
know this. If we fail to win support for it,
America will again become a colony and be ruled over
by an English viceroy. Is there anything else? No, sir, nothing,
(10:03):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Mister Hampton.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Well, it's a fine story that fellow Hamilton would have us.
Believe you are going to tell me something.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Oh listen to me.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Me and those who think like me, We've found a
way to prevent the Constitution from being signed.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
A way to prevent it.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
The Constitution cannot be signed until the vote has been
taken to approve what it says.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
To unstand, I.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Understand now, as you doubtless know, the vote cannot be
taken unless mind you unless forty five members of the
Convention are present on the floor. I see, yes, I
think I understand. It's simple enough of us intend to
stay away from the convention just to make sure there
will never be forty five members present, so no vote
(10:47):
will ever be taken. The Constitution will have to be
tossed out. You look impressed. Affair here you hold? Are
you longrel and those like you? What you to oppose
the constitution is your right? Well, it's not your right
to sabotag it. It's not your right to prevent other
men from expressing the dules. You're a false swanzer. Your
(11:09):
place is at the convention, and I'll be one to
see you go there. I see here you you don't listen.
Listen all of you. We're going to need forty five
delegates at the convention. How's with me? Have every delegate
here in this place and drag them to the convention hall.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
You will not drag me anywhere.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
You will not ram this constitution down, Artho.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
You'll be there.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I'd like to see you lay your hands on me, sir.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
You'll be there, sir. There were a score of divided.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Opinions in that tavern, but The majority of the men
wanted to see the Constitution voted on, and they took
hold of the rebel delegates there and dragged them all
the way to the Convention Hall to make sure the
required forty five delegates were present enough to take a vote.
One way or another. The Constitution faced life or death
(12:07):
for the first time in many long weeks. There was
a silence at the convention and General Washington, the man
who had led American troops to victory in the Revolutionary War,
faced the assembly.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
We who are gathered here.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Must now determine by a vote, once and for all,
whether or not this document called by us the American Constitution,
shall decide for this generation and all those to follow,
a way of life dedicated to individual liberty and the
(12:44):
security of all the states. We who have planned it
have full knowledge that it may contain mistakes, and we
have accordingly left the way open for future generations will
rectify any of these misus to suit.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
The fire In a few hours later, Tom Farrell wrote
the final paragraphs of the story he would send to
New York September seventeenth, seventeen eighty seven date line Philadelphia
Dispatch to the New York packet. Your humble servant, having
witnessed the conclusion of the events in this city, is
able to report that the American Constitution has been approved
(13:23):
by a majority of the delegates sent here by the
thirteen States. All that is now left to do is
for the state themselves to ratify and make the Constitution
the law of the land. My last impression of it
all is the look on General Washington's face. He did
not seem to know what was going on about him.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
At the last.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
He stared straight ahead, and one knew what he wanted.
Will this constitution succeed in uniting this country?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Will it prevail? You?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
And I know it did, Oh, not without further warfare
and human misery. But it did prevail.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
We are living proof of it, we who.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Breathe the fresh air of liberty, whose fathers in every
generation have stood ready to defend with their blood what
we have in this country of ours. And we too
stand ready. I ready. And so you've heard the first
chapter in the story of the American Nation, brought to
you by the Ladies Auxiliary to the veterans of Foreign Wars.
(14:32):
Next week, another story to make you proud of this
great country of ours, as we follow the American trail
American Trail. The American Trail blazed in blood, defended in blood,
(00:27):
Chapter one, Dispatched to New York, seventeen seventy six. There
is no longer room for hope. If we want to
be free, we must fight. I repeat how we must fight,
and appeal to arms, and the God of Hosts is
all the rest left to us. In seventeen eighty seven,
(00:55):
almost nine years later, a stagecoach hurtled along the rough
lanes that led from New.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
York, Virginia.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Inside the coach sat Tom Farrell, a newspaper reporter from
New York City. As he sat there, he planned how
he would write the story he would soon send back.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
To his newspaper.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
And dispatch to the New York Packet. Date line March eighteenth,
seventeen eighty seven. Your humble servant, being considered by his
batters fit to report the events to occur in Philadelphia
in May of this year, and.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Having at his disposal a few weeks to spare.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Is now taking an opportunity to travel by stagecoach to Virginia,
there to interview one Patrick Henry, an aggressive opponent of
the New American Constitution. Sir, do I have the honor
of addressing mister Patrick Henry.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
You do.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I'm Tom Farrell, Sir, a journalist from New York, New York. Eh, well,
I can't blame you for wanting to come to Virginia.
Sit down, thank you, sir, and.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I'm not an overly cautious man, so you'd best mind
what you asked me and speak up while I bore
a glass of sadder. Sir, is it true that you
oppose the signing of the Constitution?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
It is? Would you care to say? Why not? At all?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
The thirteen American colonies did not wage a bloody war
to win their independence from a foreign king in order
to calmly surrender that independence to a central government. It's
this idea of one central government ruling all thirteen states.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
That I opposed.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
But sir, Virginia would be represented in the central government.
We want independence, not representation. And I'll opposed this constitution
with as much vigor as I opposed the Royal Crown.
The Constitution had not yet been approved or signed. It
was still just a piece of paper, and Patrick Henry,
(02:49):
in opposing it, was asserting his right as a free
man to express his own personal opinion of the most important.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Issue of his day.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
On the way to Philadelphia, newspaper man Tom Carroll became
friendly with one of the delegates who was also traveling
to the convention, where the constitution would be debated and
signed sign that is, if a sufficient number of delegates
approved it.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Newspaper man name, yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Well, what do you think about this constitution?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Well? I don't really know.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I know, of course you don't, nor does anybody else
in the right senses. Well, it's pretty much the first
time in history that people have been able to assemble
and decide for themselves what kind of government they want
to live under.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
You can't deny that.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Why do we need any government thing?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Don't you think we do?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I'm from western Pennsylvania. Why should we pay taxes to
anyone outside Pennsylvania? Mark my words. There's going to be
a stack of trouble in Philadelphia. There'll be blood spilled.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
There's something spilled. Now.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Listen, Men who but a few short years ago, had
fought shoulder to shoulder for independence were now shoot at
each other across disputed state lines. Tom Parrell knew that
America could not survive unless all the states were united,
under one central government. A few days later, Tom Parrell
(04:15):
sat in one of the crowded taverns.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Of Philadelphia with the delegate.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Who had been his stagecoach companion. Look around, mister Ferrell,
did you smell trouble?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I was looking at.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Faces grim, grim and serious. Not a smiling face.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Here.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Keep your eyes on yonder the table. See the fellow
with one hand touching the hilt of his sword. I'd
appreciate it if the gentleman seated opposite me would repeat
his previous statements with extreme pleasures. I repeat my statement
and my intention, if need be, to defend you with
my soul. It is my contention that the Southern States
have no business joining a union, and that they should
(04:53):
be separate and apart from your northern states.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Defend yourself.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
A duel.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Tom Parrell, watching the two men, sat there horribly fascinated.
Two men splashing at each other with cold steel, fighting
to the death over a piece of paper that the
founding Father's hope would bind together four million people. It
was night, and Tom Parrell walked alone. He walked until
(05:22):
he found himself in the ghostly silence of the Philadelphia waterfront.
He wanted to think and to be alone, good evening, sir,
h oh, grievely, he will be the pleasure seen a
living soul down.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Here, pleasure graveyard.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Hie, lad, Instead, all right, look for yourself. American ships
a good dozen of laying their idle empire cargo and
their timbers are rating. But why why aren't they loading
cargo and sailing? You should know that, lad, Foreign countries
will handle him to do with this. In their age
were not a propa nation. They didn't recognize this. Now
(06:04):
what is General Washington going to do about that? Self?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I don't know. I wish I did.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
What about those other fellows Medicine, Monroe, Hamilton, all the wisdom?
What are they going to do about American ships?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Lay?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Later?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
What were they going to do? These men who had
framed the new Constitution? In early May Carroll was granted
an interview. Were a very old but a very great
man who had seen more of the world than any
other living American statesman of his time.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
So you write for a newspaper, any boy, Yes, sir,
the New York Packet. Will I do a little writing myself?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Here?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Let me pour you from tea, Thank you, sir, and
make yourself comfortable, Tom.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Sir, I was just reflecting when I married and have children,
it'll be something for me to talk about that I
sat drinking tea with the great Benjamin Franklin.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Oh, you better keep it to yourself.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Thelling me an old fool saying I'm in my second childhood.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
They say I'm too old and know what I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Confound me, Tom, I'm not a day.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Over eighty, pardon said, Well, let's say eighty one. You
look just fine, mister Franklin.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I do, don't.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I Now look at this new coat of mine, tailored
in Paris, first time I've wanted since I came back
from Europe.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Elegance are extremely elegant. Well, now you have some questions,
I suppose fire away, sir. Are you satisfied with the
Constitution in its present form? After all, it isn't the
way you originally drafted it.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
No, No, it isn't.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I must confess there are several parts of us that
I don't approve, but the document of that sort cannot
please everybody. When you assemble a number of men to
have the advantage of their combined wisdom, you inevitably assemble
with those men or their prejudices, their mistaken opinions, their
(07:57):
local interests, and sometime self reviewers.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
That's very truthful.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
But you know, Tom, it astonishes me to find this Constitution,
with all its margins for error, so near to perfection.
I believe we can build a fine nation if we
follow this charter, and we must.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
The rest of the world is watching us.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Still not everybody seems to want it.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
No, it has its enemies. But the will of the
majority of people must be served. The majority, not the minority,
must rule this land of ours.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
But the will of the majority of the people did
not concern the minorities who fought tooth and nail against
the American Constitution, just as today when wicked groups in
America would wreck our way of life. So in those days,
there were those who were prepared to use any methods
they could find to prevent the Constitution becoming wrong. And
(09:01):
Tom Farrell, sitting in a tavern a few days later,
was scared. Scared because all about him were men who
plot at the downfall of the United States before they
were united. And with him was one of these very men,
the delicate he had met on the state coach. I've
something to tell you mister Farrell. Oh well, look who's
(09:23):
here and just about to leave, Alexander Hamilton mixing with
the common people. Stop him and ask him what he
thinks about the Constitution. Excuse me, excuse me, mister Hamilton.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Can I be of help to you a question? Sir?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
If you don't mind, I'm Farrell of the New York Packet.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Ay, Yes, what can I do for you? Mister Farrell?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Tell me, sir, do you think you'll get enough votes
to make the Constitution law? I don't know, but I
know this. If we fail to win support for it,
America will again become a colony and be ruled over
by an English viceroy. Is there anything else? No, sir, nothing,
(10:03):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Mister Hampton.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Well, it's a fine story that fellow Hamilton would have us.
Believe you are going to tell me something.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Oh listen to me.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Me and those who think like me, We've found a
way to prevent the Constitution from being signed.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
A way to prevent it.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
The Constitution cannot be signed until the vote has been
taken to approve what it says.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
To unstand, I.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Understand now, as you doubtless know, the vote cannot be
taken unless mind you unless forty five members of the
Convention are present on the floor. I see, yes, I
think I understand. It's simple enough of us intend to
stay away from the convention just to make sure there
will never be forty five members present, so no vote
(10:47):
will ever be taken. The Constitution will have to be
tossed out. You look impressed. Affair here you hold? Are
you longrel and those like you? What you to oppose
the constitution is your right? Well, it's not your right
to sabotag it. It's not your right to prevent other
men from expressing the dules. You're a false swanzer. Your
(11:09):
place is at the convention, and I'll be one to
see you go there. I see here you you don't listen.
Listen all of you. We're going to need forty five
delegates at the convention. How's with me? Have every delegate
here in this place and drag them to the convention hall.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
You will not drag me anywhere.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
You will not ram this constitution down, Artho.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
You'll be there.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I'd like to see you lay your hands on me, sir.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
You'll be there, sir. There were a score of divided.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Opinions in that tavern, but The majority of the men
wanted to see the Constitution voted on, and they took
hold of the rebel delegates there and dragged them all
the way to the Convention Hall to make sure the
required forty five delegates were present enough to take a vote.
One way or another. The Constitution faced life or death
(12:07):
for the first time in many long weeks. There was
a silence at the convention and General Washington, the man
who had led American troops to victory in the Revolutionary War,
faced the assembly.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
We who are gathered here.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Must now determine by a vote, once and for all,
whether or not this document called by us the American Constitution,
shall decide for this generation and all those to follow,
a way of life dedicated to individual liberty and the
(12:44):
security of all the states. We who have planned it
have full knowledge that it may contain mistakes, and we
have accordingly left the way open for future generations will
rectify any of these misus to suit.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
The fire In a few hours later, Tom Farrell wrote
the final paragraphs of the story he would send to
New York September seventeenth, seventeen eighty seven date line Philadelphia
Dispatch to the New York packet. Your humble servant, having
witnessed the conclusion of the events in this city, is
able to report that the American Constitution has been approved
(13:23):
by a majority of the delegates sent here by the
thirteen States. All that is now left to do is
for the state themselves to ratify and make the Constitution
the law of the land. My last impression of it
all is the look on General Washington's face. He did
not seem to know what was going on about him.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
At the last.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
He stared straight ahead, and one knew what he wanted.
Will this constitution succeed in uniting this country?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Will it prevail? You?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
And I know it did, Oh, not without further warfare
and human misery. But it did prevail.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
We are living proof of it, we who.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Breathe the fresh air of liberty, whose fathers in every
generation have stood ready to defend with their blood what
we have in this country of ours. And we too
stand ready. I ready. And so you've heard the first
chapter in the story of the American Nation, brought to
you by the Ladies Auxiliary to the veterans of Foreign Wars.
(14:32):
Next week, another story to make you proud of this
great country of ours, as we follow the American trail
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